Several bottles of that alcoholic beverage the Scots invented and you guys appropriated should be sufficient.
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Thatās absurdity. By passing mandates that either directly or indirectly intervene with their activities, you have undertaken the responsibility to ensure their survival. If you arenāt willing to do that, then donāt pass any bloody mandates. Let market forces sort them out.
On a separate note, despite all the talk about China and āsocialismā, the CCP did NOT give anyone - neither businesses nor individuals - any form of handouts in most provinces unless they did extreme stuff like lock people in their homes like in Wuhan(obviously common sense dictates that youāre gonna have to at least provide them with food or theyāll starve). At least in the ones I can confirm, which are the major ones, which contain at least half of the population.
People instead saw it as their national duty to donate stuff to medical personnel and abide by lockdown regulations. You should see the look on their faces when I tell them how much unemployment benefits the US handed out.
TL:DR
The CCP didnāt give any handouts to people or businesses in most provinces during the lockdowns. The citizens donated money to help the CCP instead.
But it worked.
Go figure.
The world is nuts.
Donāt get me started on S.E Asia where the governments make Trump look like a bloody genius.
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Iām going with the probability that this wonāt be permanent because most people simply cannot work from home without any physical interaction with co-workers. That includes most of the tech nerds who had no friends in school and spent all their time coding in their dorm rooms.
IMO, itās why a concept like WeWork almost worked but for the horrible business strategies amongst all the absurdity taking place in the upper ranks. Softbankās Masayoshi Son(bloody genius) wouldnāt have initially thrown in billions if he and his guys didnāt think this was what the market wanted.
To be fair though, it would have tanked anyway unless they had unlimited cash flow because of COVID even if it was well run. No one could have predicted that.
The K shaped recovery is more or less confirmed. I canāt believe anyone on Trumpās team actually claimed otherwise while hoping to maintain a scintilla of credibility in the future. Presidents come and go. The party will always remain. Why stick your neck out for this guy? Itās not a rhetorical question. I really cannot comprehend their understand their actions, especially from someone smart like Ted Cruz.
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Moonshine?
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The implosion begins.
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Good strong consistent drops in cases. Hope that keeps up as vaccinations increase. I get my second shot next Friday Iāll keep everyone updated on side effects like I did last time.
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Covid hospitalizations down by ~ 63% over last 50 days in Texas.
Going to the viewing of a man that died from it, in a few minutes though.
He was a Vietnam vet (possible Agent Orange exposure) and also had an insulation business for years. Might have had some pre existing condition, but definitely was a covid fatality. Another acquaintance (wife is ER RN supervisor) has been fighting it and is barely succeeding, but at home.
Strange how it really knocks some down, while others get mild symptoms.
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About 75% of those who contract the poliovirus are completely asymptomatic.
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Watching a livestream by Alton Brown, who resides in Georgia. His (current) wife just received her 2nd Moderna shot and had a bad reaction -vomiting, needs tylenol, bed rest.
The main point -technically, she is not āeligibleā for a shot yet (though she is the caregiver for an 83yr old mother-in-law), and she wasnāt sure if she should get one; but, health care people told her that only 72% of the shots available in GA are currently being used. Well done, vaccine rollout in GA.
Lots of snide comments from me about GA that will go unsaidā¦
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Sorry to hear that. Been to two of those myself recently.
I do wish that even as things are getting better that we wouldnāt rush to try and go back to normal everywhere. Iām not opposed to things being open but it seems as if some states are pretending that lower cases are zero cases and arenāt thinking about how quickly things have changed throughout this. Weāre still talking about something that has killed over 520,000 people in around a year here.
To me this is hardly the time to stop wearing masks but Iām also in a state where most people never did it anyways. Iām just as ready for normalcy as the next guy but wearing a mask while picking groceries or buying a lotto ticket at a gas station isnāt exactly difficult.
Just seems like itās āthings are starting to get better with Covid. letās try and fuck that up if we can.ā
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My second shot I had less arm pain by far, but had some body aches/headache which I didnāt have the first time around at all.
Wasnāt too bad but anecdotally from friends that have had it the second shot may have more side effects than the first.
And to think we let big government talk people in to taking that thing. Freedom my ass.
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Based on bidens announcement Iām hoping we are 90% back to normal by 4th of july. Letās not fuck this up, mkay?
My SIL has her wedding planned for the end of july and is mandating every who can be vacinated, be vaccinated or they cannot come. Unsurprisingly, itās causing issues with the grooms family (all from Florida).
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lol. I suggest going over the actual statistics re death rates in Isreal since the implementation of the Pfizer vaccine.
25 jan 2025 7 day death rate (avg) was 65 deaths/day
current 7 day avg is 20 deaths/day
Stop peddling conspiracy theories.
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Sounds like a great time with great people. /s.
Yep, some of the grooms family are antivaxxers and/or Q believers and 100% would attend the wedding while sick, and have no problem meeting and greeting everyone there including old folks. Luckily, my soon to be BIL fell a long way from his family tree.
Yeah, this is patently false. Case and incidence rates are dropping like a stone in the U.K. and all Pfizer employees are getting vaccinated.
A friend of mine is a microbiologist who works at Pfizer, and has been vaccinated as part of it. So unless the author of this has a PHD in virology and microbiology, and also assumes pfizer PHDās would engage in willing self harm, they might want to remove the tinfoil hat and stop spreading such garbage.
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